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banning words is authoriatarian and will just result in other words used to the same affect.
also what is and what is not a "slur" is arbitrary, and largely to do with ingroup/outgroup dynamics
Consider "Jap", a short hand for "Japanese", because of WW2 this is considered a slur because the context was for othering, but "Brit" as a shortened version of "British" is largely ok, because there is no need for othering there (Unless you're Irish maybe ;) )
as usual, context is key.
@kaia